COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 561/2012  
of 27 June 2012  
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 imposing special conditions governing the 
import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the 
Fukushima nuclear power station  
(Text with EEA relevance)  
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,  
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European 
Union,  
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down 
the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing 
the European Food Safety Authority and laying down 
procedures in matters of food safety (  1 ), and in particular 
Article 53(1)(b)(ii) thereof,  
Whereas:  
(1) Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 provides for 
the possibility to adopt appropriate Union emergency 
measures for food and feed imported from a third 
country in order to protect public health, animal health 
or the environment, where the risk cannot be contained 
satisfactorily by means of measures taken by the Member 
States individually.  
(2) Following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power 
station on 11 March 2011, the Commission was 
informed that radionuclide levels in certain food 
products originating in Japan exceeded the action levels 
in food applicable in Japan. Such contamination may 
constitute a threat to public and animal health in the 
Union and therefore Commission Implementing Regu ­
lation (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011 imposing 
special conditions governing the import of feed and food 
originating in or consigned from Japan following the 
accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station (  2 ) was 
adopted. That Regulation was replaced by Commission 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 961/2011 (  3 ) which 
was later replaced by Commission Implementing Regu ­
lation (EU) No 284/2012 (  4 ). 
(3) The Japanese authorities have recently reported frequent 
non-compliance of log-grown shiitake originating in the 
prefecture of Iwate. The levels of the sum of caesium-134 
and caesium-137 found in log-grown shiitake were 
exceeding the stricter maximum level of 100 Becque ­
rel/kg, in application in Japan since 1 April 2012. Also 
in a significant number of samples, the levels found were 
higher than the maximum level applicable before 1 April 
2012 (500 Becquerel/kg). In addition, non compliance 
was reported on a few samples of fern and fish orig ­
inating in Iwate. The prefecture of Iwate is not among 
the prefectures of the affected zone, where a testing of all feed and food originating from those prefectures is 
required before export to the Union. Given these recent 
findings it is appropriate to add Iwate prefecture to the 
affected zone.  
(4) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 should 
therefore be amended accordingly.  
(5) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in 
accordance with the opinion of the Standing 
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,  
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:  
Article 1  
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 is amended as 
follows:  
(1) In Article 5, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:  
"3. The declaration referred to in paragraph 1 shall 
furthermore certify that:  
(a) the products have been harvested and/or processed 
before 11 March 2011; or  
(b) the products originate in and are consigned from a 
prefecture other than Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, 
Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, 
Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Iwate; or  
(c) the products are consigned from Fukushima, Gunma, 
Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo, 
Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Iwate prefectures, but 
do not originate in one of those prefectures and have 
not been exposed to radioactivity during transiting; or  
(d) where the products originate in Fukushima, Gunma, 
Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Yamanashi, Saitama, Tokyo, 
Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Iwate prefectures, the 
products are accompanied by an analytical report 
containing the results of sampling and analysis. " 
(2) Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this 
Regulation.  
Article 2  
Transitional measure  
By way of derogation from Article 6(1) of Implementing Regu ­
lation (EU) No 284/2012, products referred to in Article 1 of 
that Regulation may be imported into the Union if they are 
accompanied by a declaration according to the previous model 
of declaration set out in Annex I to that Regulation where:EN 28.6.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 168/17  
( 1 ) OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.  
( 2 ) OJ L 80, 26.3.2011, p. 5.  
( 3 ) OJ L 252, 28.9.2011, p. 10.  
( 4 ) OJ L 92, 30.3.2012, p. 16.(a) the products left Japan before the entry into force of this Regulation; or  
(b) the declaration was issued before the date of entry into force of this Regulation and the products have 
left Japan not more than 10 working days after the entry into force of this Regulation.  
Article 3  
Entry into force  
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the  Official Journal 
of the European Union.  
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.  
Done at Brussels, 27 June 2012.  
For the Commission  
The President  
José Manuel BARROSOEN L 168/18 Official Journal of the European Union 28.6.2012ANNEX  
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